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Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology, Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology

These essays propose “a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political” (Jewish Book World).

Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal political order. The vexed status of liberalism in Jewish thought and Judaism in political theology is interrogated with recourse to thinking from across the Continental tradition.

“This collection of essays, which examines political theology from the distinct perspective of Jewish philosophy, could not be timelier or more useful for scholars and students navigating what is often viewed as very dense and difficult material.”—Claire Elise Katz, Texas A&M University

Randi Rashkover, Martin Kavka, Jerome E. Copulsky, Dana Hollander, Eric Jacobson, Gregory Kaplan, Daniel Weidner, Daniel Brandes, Sarah Hammerschlag, Zachary Braiterman, Robert Erlewine, Oona Eisenstadt, Brian Britt, Bruce Rosenstock

Randi Rashkover is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University. She is author of Freedom and Law: A Jewish-Christian Apologetics, and Revelation and Theopolitics: Barth, Rosenzweig, and the Politics of Praise.Martin Kavka is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. He is author of Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy, which was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Philosophy and Jewish Thought in 2008. He has also co-edited four books, including Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology (Indiana University Press, 2014). He is also co-editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics.

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